Senior Director, Product Management
C3 AI - Redwood City, CA
posted 3 days ago
About the position
C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE:AI) is a leading Enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. The proven C3 AI Platform provides comprehensive services to build enterprise-scale AI applications more efficiently and cost-effectively than alternative approaches. The C3 AI Platform supports the value chain in any industry with prebuilt, configurable, high-value AI applications for reliability, fraud detection, sensor network health, supply network optimization, energy management, anti-money laundering, and customer engagement. C3 AI is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Director, Product Management to lead our product management and engineering teams for supply chain solutions. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of bringing innovative products to market from initial launch to established market leadership. This role is responsible for developing and executing the product roadmap for our AI-driven supply chain solutions and will include direct reports.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of product managers and engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
- Interact with customers and market thought leaders to develop a deep understanding of enterprise business problems and define product requirements and best practices for supply chain solutions.
- Set strategic direction and priorities for your products.
- Define and document business processes impacted by your products.
- Author product specifications, including use cases, activity flow diagrams, screen mockups, and identification of data sources, analytics, reporting, and integration requirements.
- Write detailed Market Requirements Documents for product capabilities and features, identifying innovative ideas to incorporate into the product roadmap.
- Build and evaluate business cases to support product investment decisions.
- Collaborate with engineering, data science, and other support teams such as user experience, QA, and documentation to create exceptional solutions.
- Work together with Marketing, Sales, Professional Services, and Support to promote the delivery of product features through training initiatives, documentation efforts, and customer/analyst demonstrations.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience delivering compelling, scalable systems.
- At least 7 years of leadership experience with product, architecture, and technology implementation, including direct reports.
- 3-5 years of experience in developing supply chain software solutions.
- Demonstrated success in defining and launching enterprise software products.
- Experience in writing logical, detailed, and complete product requirements and functional specifications.
- Proven ability to develop and effectively communicate a product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Ability to translate strategy into tactical plans.
- Self-starter with entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Strong business acumen, quantitative, and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Knowledgeable in technology, software architecture, and software as a service (SaaS) delivery models.
- Outstanding team player with the ability to coordinate people and activities across multiple functional areas.
- Knowledge and experience in agile software development processes.
- Experience in product design and user experience design preferred.
- Bachelor's degree required from a 4-year university, with a focus on science, technology, engineering, math, or similar.
- M.B.A degree preferred.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in product design and user experience design preferred.
Benefits
- Excellent benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Generous equity plan
